CafeShops GIF: How Bad Is It?

I have been playing around with graphics today, and decided to put up a small "banner" (can a banner be on the side? it's certainly too big to be called a button.) plugging my cafepress shop. I am not certain why I am doing this (plugging a shop, or having one in the first place... the playing with graphics part was useful), because I don't really expect anyone who reads my "thinks" to go rushing over to buy a t-shirt. I've sold one bumper sticker since I opened it. Heck, I haven't even purchased anything yet, and part of the reason I opened it was so that I could get small quantities of stickers, etc., to use as promo items without having to buy hundreds of them.

So, what I am really interested in knowing is: "Do you find the animated GIF annoying?" I am thinking about slowing down the frame cyclilng to make it less distracting. I know the images are not the best resolution, but I wanted to keep the file size relatively small.

So please, let me know what you think.